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February 1, 2012

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 1, 2012, covering February 1, 2012.

  1. 1
    Album cover for 21 by Adele

    21

    Adele

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    48
  2. 2
    Album cover for Kidz Bop 21 by Kidz Bop Kids

    Kidz Bop 21

    Kidz Bop Kids

    Last week
    —
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for El Camino by The Black Keys

    El Camino

    The Black Keys

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    7
  4. 4
    Album cover for Take Care by Drake

    Take Care

    Drake

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    10
  5. 5
    Album cover for Talk That Talk by Rihanna

    Talk That Talk

    Rihanna

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    9

Notable Deaths

Don Cornelius

2012Don Cornelius, American television host and producer (born 1936)[†]

Donald Cortez Cornelius was an American television show host and producer widely known as the creator of the nationally syndicated dance and music show Soul Train, which he hosted from 1970 until 1993. Cornelius sold the show to MadVision Entertainment in 2008. On November 3, 2023, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Ahmet Ertegun Award.

Wisława Szymborska

2012Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)[†]

Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, she resided in Kraków until the end of her life. In Poland, Szymborska's books have reached sales rivaling prominent prose authors, though she wrote in a poem, "Some Like Poetry", that "perhaps" two in a thousand people like poetry.

Historical Events

2012Seventy-four people are killed and over 500 injured as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al Masry and Al Ahly in the city of Port Said.[†]

The Port Said Stadium riot was a riot which occurred at Port Said Stadium in Port Said, Egypt on 1 February 2012, following an Egyptian Premier League football match between Al Masry and Al Ahly. Seventy-four people were killed and more than 500 injured after thousands of Al Masry fans invaded the pitch following a 3–1 victory by their club. Al Ahly fans were attacked using clubs, stones, machetes, knives, bottles, and fireworks, trapping them inside the Al Ahly partition of the stadium. Many of the deaths were due to police refusal to open the stadium gates, trapping fans inside and causing a stampede. Civil unrest and clashes with police erupted in several major cities, such as Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez, in response to police's handling of the riot.

Historical Context for February 1, 2012

In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]